Adam R. Brown

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
35 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Adam R. Brown is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Adam R. Brown has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 23 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 13 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Adam R. Brown's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (26 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (22 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (12 papers). Adam R. Brown is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (26 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (22 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (12 papers). Adam R. Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iceland and Netherlands. Adam R. Brown's co-authors include Leonard Susskind, Ying Zhao, Brian Swingle, Daniel A. Roberts, Alex Dahlen, Erick J. Weinberg, Hrant Gharibyan, Henry W. Lin, Lárus Thorlacius and Stefan Leichenauer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Adam R. Brown

34 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Holographic Complexity Equals Bulk Action? 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2016 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Holographic Complexity Equals Bulk Action?
    2016 491 citations Adam R. Brown, Daniel A. Roberts et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Complexity, action, and black holes
    2016 388 citations Adam R. Brown, Daniel A. Roberts et al. Physical review. D profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Adam R. Brown United States 18 1.3k 1.1k 795 539 263 35 1.8k
Xi Dong United States 20 1.7k 1.3× 1.4k 1.3× 952 1.2× 468 0.9× 137 0.5× 42 2.0k
Daniel Harlow United States 19 2.0k 1.5× 1.6k 1.4× 1.2k 1.5× 487 0.9× 192 0.7× 25 2.3k
Julian Sonner Switzerland 23 1.0k 0.8× 761 0.7× 673 0.8× 777 1.4× 186 0.7× 45 1.6k
Michał P. Heller Poland 28 2.3k 1.8× 1.7k 1.5× 519 0.7× 606 1.1× 154 0.6× 80 2.7k
Ahmed Almheiri United States 11 1.7k 1.3× 1.5k 1.3× 1.0k 1.3× 515 1.0× 103 0.4× 13 2.0k
Anatoly Dymarsky United States 26 1.0k 0.8× 789 0.7× 498 0.6× 664 1.2× 138 0.5× 68 1.8k
Paweł Caputa Japan 18 694 0.5× 484 0.4× 501 0.6× 546 1.0× 181 0.7× 36 1.1k
Daniel A. Roberts United States 10 1.3k 1.0× 1.0k 0.9× 1.1k 1.4× 1.3k 2.5× 727 2.8× 16 2.6k
Aron C. Wall United States 22 2.1k 1.7× 1.9k 1.6× 1.3k 1.6× 605 1.1× 83 0.3× 32 2.3k
Steven Abel United Kingdom 27 1.8k 1.4× 905 0.8× 241 0.3× 216 0.4× 143 0.5× 103 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Adam R. Brown

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adam R. Brown

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brown, Adam R., et al.. (2026). The evaporation of charged black holes. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2026(1).
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Brown, Adam R.. (2024). Polynomial Equivalence of Complexity Geometries. Quantum. 8. 1391–1391. 4 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R., Michael Freedman, Henry W. Lin, & Leonard Susskind. (2023). Universality in long-distance geometry and quantum complexity. Nature. 622(7981). 58–62. 6 indexed citations
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Nezami, Sepehr, Henry W. Lin, Adam R. Brown, et al.. (2023). Quantum Gravity in the Lab. II. Teleportation by Size and Traversable Wormholes. PRX Quantum. 4(1). 31 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R., et al.. (2023). The smallest interacting universe. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(1). 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R., Hrant Gharibyan, Stefan Leichenauer, et al.. (2023). Quantum Gravity in the Lab. I. Teleportation by Size and Traversable Wormholes. PRX Quantum. 4(1). 41 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R. & Leonard Susskind. (2018). Second law of quantum complexity. Physical review. D. 97(8). 164 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R.. (2018). Hyperbolic Inflation. Physical Review Letters. 121(25). 251601–251601. 69 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R., Leonard Susskind, & Ying Zhao. (2017). Quantum complexity and negative curvature. Physical review. D. 95(4). 90 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R., Daniel A. Roberts, Leonard Susskind, Brian Swingle, & Ying Zhao. (2016). Complexity, action, and black holes. Physical review. D. 93(8). 388 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brown, Adam R., Daniel A. Roberts, Leonard Susskind, Brian Swingle, & Ying Zhao. (2016). Holographic Complexity Equals Bulk Action?. Physical Review Letters. 116(19). 191301–191301. 491 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brown, Adam R.. (2013). Tensile Strength and the Mining of Black Holes. Physical Review Letters. 111(21). 211301–211301. 28 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R. & Alex Dahlen. (2012). On “nothing” as an infinitely negatively curved spacetime. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 85(10). 20 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R. & Alex Dahlen. (2011). Giant leaps and minimal branes in multidimensional flux landscapes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 84(2). 10 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R. & Alex Dahlen. (2011). Populating the Whole Landscape. Physical Review Letters. 107(17). 171301–171301. 20 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R. & Alex Dahlen. (2011). Case of the disappearing instanton. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 84(10). 16 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R. & Alex Dahlen. (2010). Small steps and giant leaps in the landscape. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 82(8). 24 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R.. (2008). Boom and Bust Inflation: A Graceful Exit via Compact Extra Dimensions. Physical Review Letters. 101(22). 221302–221302. 10 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R., et al.. (2007). Enhanced Brane Tunneling and Instanton Wrinkles. Physical Review Letters. 99(16). 161601–161601. 23 indexed citations
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Brown, Adam R., et al.. (2003). Solutions of Doubly and Higher Order Iterated Equations. Journal of Statistical Physics. 110(3-6). 1087–1097. 2 indexed citations

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